TOPIC/SUBJECT/KEYWORD SEARCH:
1. What is your topic?
2. What “keywords” did you search for?
3. Write the bibliographic citation for this website (including the Uniform Resource Locator (URL), the website’s address.
I. IS THIS WEBSITE AUTHORITATIVE?
4. Is there a named author?
5. Is the author an expert in your topic?
6. What are the author’s qualifications and/or credentials? (For example, degrees held, titles earned, affiliation with universities
or organizations, recognition by other well-respected leaders in the field...)
7. Is there a way to contact the author to verify information?
Write the author’s e-mail or other address here.
8. Is this webpage part of a larger website?
9. Is this website a university, or respected organization? Write it here.
II. IS THIS WEBSITE ACCURATE?
10. What is the purpose of this website? (For example, informational, educational, entertainment, promotional/sales, or a combination of these.)
11. Is the page written in a scholarly manner (with citations, footnotes, references, bibliography, and/or webliography), so that you can check data and verify facts or statistics?
III. IS THIS WEBSITE CURRENT?
12. On what date was this site created?
13. On what date was this site last revised?
14. Are these dates satisfactory for your topic?
IV. IS THIS WEBSITE COMPLETE?__
15. Does the author give only one point of view (one side of the issue)?
16. Does the author show a strong bias or prejudice toward this point of view?
17. Does the author recommend links to other websites?
18. When you click on these links, do they work (or are they “dead links”)?
19. Are the links to reputable, useful, high quality websites?
20. Write the URL for a recommended link here.
Take This Tutorial to Learn About How to Select Reliable Web Sites:
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/webevaluation/
TOPIC/SUBJECT/KEYWORD SEARCH:
1. What is your topic?
2. What “keywords” did you search for?
3. Write the bibliographic citation for this website (including the Uniform Resource Locator (URL), the website’s address.
I. IS THIS WEBSITE AUTHORITATIVE?
4. Is there a named author?
5. Is the author an expert in your topic?
6. What are the author’s qualifications and/or credentials? (For example, degrees held, titles earned, affiliation with universities
or organizations, recognition by other well-respected leaders in the field...)
7. Is there a way to contact the author to verify information?
Write the author’s e-mail or other address here.
8. Is this webpage part of a larger website?
9. Is this website a university, or respected organization? Write it here.
II. IS THIS WEBSITE ACCURATE?
10. What is the purpose of this website? (For example, informational, educational, entertainment, promotional/sales, or a combination of these.)
11. Is the page written in a scholarly manner (with citations, footnotes, references, bibliography, and/or webliography), so that you can check data and verify facts or statistics?
III. IS THIS WEBSITE CURRENT?
12. On what date was this site created?
13. On what date was this site last revised?
14. Are these dates satisfactory for your topic?
IV. IS THIS WEBSITE COMPLETE?__
15. Does the author give only one point of view (one side of the issue)?
16. Does the author show a strong bias or prejudice toward this point of view?
17. Does the author recommend links to other websites?
18. When you click on these links, do they work (or are they “dead links”)?
19. Are the links to reputable, useful, high quality websites?
20. Write the URL for a recommended link here.
http://www.dhmo.org/
http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/
http://ww3.wpunj.edu/library/bi/bogus/cancercure.html
http://ww3.wpunj.edu/library/bi/bogus/cancercure.html